People who have trouble using the conventional monitor display benefit from alternative output hardware and software. This includes items such as: screen reading software, synthetic speech hardware or software, screen magnification hardware software, refreshable braille and braille embossers. When you click on any of the links below and access the vendors page, usually there is a products link that will help you locate the item sold by that vendor.

If these adaptive technologies are new to you, here is a video with a demo of alternative output systems

Prentke Romich Company
A Multi-product reseller

AccessAbility, Inc.
Multi-product reseller specializing in
sales and installation of products for
people with visual impairments.

ALVA Access Group, Inc.
Braille displays

ALVA Braille displays including
ALVA 544 Satellite Display
ALVA Satellite braille displays and outSPOKEN
ALVA Delphi MultiMedia braille displays
ALVA Satellite braille displays and Jaws

American Thermoform Corporation
Printers and Embossers,
also resells other's hardware and software

Thermoform Machines
Swell-Form Graphics Heating Machine
Both make tactile images.

Artic Technologies International
Developer of Speech Synthesizers,
Braille & QWERTY Note Talker Devices
DOS & Windows Screen Readers for
Blindness & Magnifiers for Low Vision.

DISK STATION for Notetakers
Ergo Braille Notetaker
WinVision speech access to both Windows 3 and Windows 95
SynPhonix Speech Synthesizers
P27 speech synthesizer for laptops

Blazie Engineering, Inc.
Now a subsidiary of Freedom Scientific
A merger of
Arkenstone Inc., Henter Joyce and Blazie companies.
Is also a multi-product reseller.
Emphasis on technologies for
sensory and learning disabled persons.
Products include:
Open Book: Ruby Edition
Outloud Text-to-Speech support for Braille,
supports twelve languages

VERA
Document Scanning & Reader Package

Robotron, Inc.
Input and output devices for the blind & visually impaired.
These products are output only.

Galileo Reading System
High-end Text Reading System

Rainbow Reading Machine
Mid-range Text Reading System

Pronto Reading Machine
Lite Version, Reading System

Dancing Dots
Braille Translation

GOODFEEL® Braille Music Translator
for Windows 95 and 98

Dolphin Computer Access Group
Screen readers and magnifiers

Supernova reader magnifier
Hal screen reader
LunarPlus enhanced screen enlarger
Cicero text reader with
Orpheus multilingual software speech synthesizer

Duxbury Systems, Inc.
Software for braille with
Windows, Macintosh, DOS, & UNIX programs

Duxbury Braille Translator
multi-platform, multi-language braille translator

MegaDots
Powerful DOS braille translator designed
for the volume transcriber and producer

Enabling Technologies Company
Braille Printers and Embossers

Single and Double-sided Home,
School & Office Embossers

Commercial Production Embossers
Signmakers

HumanWare, Inc.
Specializes in assistive technology for
persons who have difficulties reading print due to
blindness, low vision, or learning and/or reading disabilities.

IBM Special Needs Systems
Assistive Technology products and
links to other related products

Home Page Reader - a self voicing web browser
SpeechViewer III
ViaVoice - Voice-to-text software for
Windows and Macintosh

Mindmaker, Inc.
Developer of intelligent agents, speech I/O interfaces,
natural language processing, machine learning,
machine reasoning and other
artificial intelligence technology

TextAssist
An application that converts text into speech

Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium
A consortium made up of major Canadian
educational institutions and private sector partners.

NeuroTalker OCR AVE
Optical character recognition (OCR) software

Personal Access Locator (PAL)
Network of small programmable transmitters that
broadcast orientation and wayfinding information to
blind travelers via small personal receivers.

Virtual Reality Mouse (VRM)
Allows computer users who are blind or physically
challenged to "feel" icons, menus, buttons, and Internet
hyperlinks. Windows only.

Ocutech VES-AF
A spectacle-mounted autofocus telescope system that
maintains crisp and accurate focus automatically,
regardless of the user's viewing distance.

VisAble Scientific Calculator
World's only scientific calculator designed
specifically for people with low vision.

VisAble Video Telescope
A video-based telescopic system with
various sight enhancement options

Pulse Data International, Inc.
Technologies for the blind and visually impaired

Video Magnifiers
SmartView Video Magnifier

BrailleNote note taker

Keynote Companion
A talking notetaker and personal organizer

KeySoft
Talking personal information manager

Keynote GOLD
A high quality speech synthesizer for
use with desktop or notebook computers

Repro-Tronics, Inc.
Tactile and embossing hardware and software

Tactile Image Enhancer
Use a photocopier, hp inkjet printer, soft lead pencil,
or china marker, then pass through the
Tactile Image Enhancer and tactile images are formed.

Thermo - Pen I or II Writing instruments designed to create
a raised image directly on the company's Flexi - Paper.

Sighted Electronics, Inc.
A multi-product reseller of technologies for the blind and visually impaired

Syntha-Voice Computers, Inc.
A Research and Development Corporation
that designs Access Technology for the Blind,
Deaf-Blind, and Learning Disabled PC User

Window Bridge 2000
Supports all Video Resolutions
and the ability to interactively change
Video Resolutions; includes Microsoft Speech
User can surf the Internet and read Web pages in
"natural order" without physically re-organizing the screen layout.
Supports a wide variety of languages in both speech and Braille

Technologies for the Visually Impaired, Inc.
A multi-product reseller of technologies for the blind and visually impaired.

Telesensory
A multi-product reseller of technologies for the blind and visually impaired.

isSound
formerly The Productivity Works, Inc.

LpStudio/PLUS
Recording and Editing software
for creating Synchronized Digital Audio
for the Web, Telephone, Kiosks, and Intranet applications.

LpPlayer
Standalone playback software for
material created using SMIL and the
Daisy Audio Book structure.

pwKiosk
Browsing and touch screen software that
provides FCC and ADA Compliant User Interfaces
for Web-based Kiosk Environments

Audio Enabling Products
pwWebSpeak - An audio Web browser that reads Web pages to you.
pwTelephone - Telephone and wireless audio browsing Web sites.
pwSpeech - A development kit for building self-voicing applications.

ViewPlus Technologies
Tactile graphic embossers

Tiger Advantage
A personal computer printer that embosses
high-resolution tactile graphics and Braille
on Braille paper or other media

VisuAide
Both a developer and a multi-product reseller of
technologies for the blind and visually impaired.

Victor
A digital talking book

Ash Technologies
Manufacturer and distributor of low-cost products for the Visually Impaired

Liberty
A fully portable battery or direct powered magnifier
with zoom camera and 6" display

OPTi
A very fast, portable PC based magnifying aid

TVi
A hand-held magnifier, which displays on a standard television

TVi Zoom
Same features as the TVi with quick and easy zoom magnification

Prisma
A full color reader

Enkidu Research, Inc
Design and Development of augmentative
techniques and communication interfaces

Handheld Portable IMPACT
A handheld portable computer (the NEC MobilePro 770)
running Microsoft's Windows CE operating system

Palmtop Portable IMPACT
A portable palmtop computer (the Casio E100)
running Microsoft's Windows CE operating system

Mayer-Johnson Company
A multi-product reseller of augmentive communications
technologies for those with speech and communication impairments.

Slater Software, Inc.
Literacy & Communication Products Adapted for Special Needs
All products for Macintosh and Windows

PixWriter
A beginning writing tool for kids

Picture It software
A fast, flexible teacher tool for
making picture-adapted documents

PixReader
Pictures, words, and speech!

The Great Talking Box Company
Products for those with communications impairments.

EasyTalk
A compact, lightweight (2.1 pounds), communication device
with up to 56 minutes of high-quality digitized recording

Vision Software
Large Print
Print Magnification software with Speech

Henter-Joyce
Now a subsidiary of Freedom Scientific<
Jaws
JAWS for Windows - A screen reader that allows
users to access a wide variety of information, education and
job-related applications as well as browse the web, read
and write E-mail messages, recalculate spread sheets or access
information in a data base.

MAGic
MAGic (MAGnification In Color) is software to provide
text and graphics magnification for Microsoft Windows
programs. Can enlarge from 2 times to 20 times their normal
size on a PC, laptop, or notebook.

TeleSensory
Video-based magnifiers

Aladdin Pro
Computer-compatible video magnifier


Aladdin Companion
Compact and lightweight video magnifier.

Outlook Color video magnifier
Features a one-piece, ergonomic design.

Aladdin Ambassador and the Reading Edge Scanner
Reader-Scanner Combo

Discover Technology
TextHELP SuperReader
Screen Reader

ClarityAF
ClarityAF Video Magnifiers
A very simple and easy to use product featuring
autofocusing, full color, contrast controls and black on white video.